I get no error messages at all in the terminal. Sent from my iPad
> On 28/03/2018, at 12:57 PM, Steven Sykes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Do you get useful errors messages if you try and launch respective > applications from within a terminal? > > Cheers, > Steven Sykes > Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury > Chair, linux.conf.au 2019 conference > Twitter: @linuxconfau2019 > Web: lca2019.linux.org.au/ > > <2019Logo-mini.png> >> On 28/03/18 12:55, [email protected] wrote: >> Yesterday on boot up and numerous reboots, Mint 18 Mate confronted me with >> something I've never seen before. A few icons had disappeared from the dock >> (network, update). Multiple applications that I use every day refused to >> launch. They gave no error messages. Trying to launch from the GUI, the >> "Starting (name of application) bar would appear on the panel, then after a >> few seconds, nothing. Trying to launch from the terminal, nothing, even >> appending -v or -vv to the command. I tried running as root via sudo, same >> result. >> >> The non functioning applications included Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird, >> the network manager when called from Settings, the PDF viewer (whether >> invoked from the menu or by double-clicking a .pdf document's icon), and >> Synaptic. >> >> Applications that seemed to be working normally included the Caja file >> manager, the display manager, Moneydance, the terminal and, as I then >> discovered, apt-get. >> >> With respect to each of the nonfunctioning applications for which I tried >> apt-get install, apt-get told me it was already installed and at the latest >> version. >> >> I was able to install Midori and xpdf, and they both worked. When I then >> tried removing and reinstalling Thunderbird, though, it did remove and >> reinstall but it still wouldn't launch. Thunderbird's data files seem >> mostly OK, although one or two of the mail sub folders may be duplicated. >> >> I have a quite up to date backup of my home folder, so if I have to >> reinstall the OS it's a nuisance rather than a tragedy, but is there any >> other way forward anyone can recommend? >> >> TIA - Andrew >> >> Sent from my iPad >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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